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Juju Member Elite
since 2003-12-29
Posts 3429In your dreams 
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What is better? To be told the answere and get the problem correct, or to figure it out your self and get it wrong. What is better? To look for reasons why something is correct or to risk the chance of being wrong by looking at the opposinf and agreeing views? what is better? IS it our responcebility as humans to think for our selves or just to have an answere. juju |
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Ringo 
since 2003-02-20
Posts 3684Saluting with misty eyes |
Only looking at things from one angle leads to absolute stagnation. The Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, Steve Jons, Bill Gates, Barry Gordy, John Reznik, Jimmy Page, the American Founding Fathers, Nicoli Tesla, Les Paul... these are ALL people who decided that maybe the "right" answers weren't the right answers, and went out on that very flimsy limb. Once they got there, they discovered that the branch was indeed just as strong or stronger than the tree they climbed and the world changed because of it.
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
You've touched on something many think is one of the most dangerous things about our society and the societies that follow - the ability to attain answers without learning them yourselves and therby owning a part of that process which, one presumes would posit a responsibility in the use thereof. My opinion is that it is better to get it "wrong" but to have tried, than to receive the "correct" answer without working for it. Use your brain. It's there for something more than to weigh the rest of your body down.  |
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Juju Member Elite
since 2003-12-29
Posts 3429In your dreams |
It is a scary little thought isn't it? Juju - 1.) a magic charm or fetish 2.)Magic 3.)A taboo connected woth the use of magic |
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Ron
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
quote: You're forgetting the third alternative -- figure it out for yourself and get it right. The preferred alternative, I think, is always going to depend on what problem you're trying to solve. If someone hadn't been willing to reveal the multiplication tables to me, I have to guess third grade would have been a lousy place to experience puberty. Even today, if I don't know how to spell a word I usually look it up rather than try to figure it out for myself. If my doctor gives me the answer to a problem, I don't feel particularly cheated or run out and insist on rediscovering penicillin. There are a vast array of problems, I think, that are best solved by the experience and expertise of others. It's definitely good to be able to think for yourself. Part of that, though, is figuring out when to trust others. While teaching should be more than just giving out answers, giving out answers is still a large part of teaching, and we'd all still be discovering fire and typing on stone keyboards if answers couldn't or shouldn't be passed along to others. |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
Ron - do you trust your doctor completely whe she gives you an answer? Do you take her at her word, without question, or do you work your brain in an attempt to understand as much as you can without having her history of education and experience? It's the same thing. I can ask you what 2+2 is and receive a direct answer, but should I accept it at that, or attempt to verify your response? Better yet, remember that math question you helped me with in Geek Stuff a while back? I trust your intelligence Ron and I believed your answer. But I didn't take it for granted, I had to be able to figure out how you arrived at that answer. Same thing with all the programming you've helped me with (I better shut up about all the help you've given me or you may start expecting a paycheck soon for tutoring!) .My point is that being given a direct answer shouldn't be completely accepted without either duplication for verification or some attempt at logical understanding. |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
Like it or not you have to rely on others for much of the way and how well your life is lived. You don’t the time to ask all the questions much less find all the right answers. Every day you make leaps of faith that whoever it was built your car, put the food in the package, etc. knew what they were doing, (and usually they do, otherwise you couldn’t go outside for all the things falling out of the sky). It’s when it comes to human relations things get sticky. Go through history and you’ll find all sorts of arrangements and their staunch defenders. You’ll pretty much have to make your own choices, (even to abjectly follow), because here it’s allowed you. It’s the burden of freedom. |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
That's an extended tangent, John. I never suggested one could live their life without trust. I trust a lot of people - with my life - every day: my fellow highway drivers. I trust in them not to crash into me (and it usually works too). The other examples you listed are good ones too. Not that I don't enjoy tangents, mind you, but I think your specific examples don't necessarily apply in the way you presented them? |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
Definitely taking the rough road and making mistakes and figuring things out for yourself. It helps when you have someone there to guide you, although that isnt always the case. In my own experience, no matter how painful, I am grateful for making (not all but most) mistakes and learned from them (learned is the key here, many do not ever learn from their mistakes) We are here to learn. To grow. To experience. Some of us are further along than others. It is in that learning, that exploration of self, soul and faith where we find our answers. Even if someone attempts to GIVE you the answers, you always end up finding them out for yourself anyhow. Is the way it needs to be. Search for self and hopefully, within that, peace. |
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Essorant Member Elite
since 2002-08-10
Posts 4769Regina, Saskatchewan; Canada |
One may not care to figure it out or have the answer. And why should he if it has excessive prices, complexities and dangers, as makes his life like a nightmare? Why should he care and vex his life about figuring out something complicated, when he can figure out something simple and natural to him such as taking care of his farm, having feasts with his family and friends, listening to music, reading a book he read a hundred times already, believing in the same thing he believed since he was a youngster? Just because the rest of the world makes itself a riddle, doesn't mean he must too. |
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Juju Member Elite
since 2003-12-29
Posts 3429In your dreams |
Yes I agree with essorant. But to a certain extant some matters don't matter. I guess I shouldn't worry about things I can't control and not be afraid of the incorrect answere. I shouldn't be afraid of mistakes and i shouldn't be afraid of leaning by them because every one makes mistakes. I just need to learn from them. -<>-~-<>-~-<>- |
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Knubian Junior Member
since 2006-03-25
Posts 35Louisiana, United States |
1. To figure it out for yourself and get it wrong. Life was meant to be tried and tested until we obtain security in all our questions of life, unfortunately, it is a lifetime quest that take us on journeys of hardship and pain so that we know and understand the why’s and what-for’s of love, compassion, fear, doubt, debate, spirituality, knowledge, promise, etc... 2. Both are equally important What do you do when a child ask you why they should not play with matches or around a stove? You tell them because they will get burned… nothing else. An inquisitive child is just like inquisitive adults, and unfortunately they are going to have to get burned to learn they lesson; therefore they have their opposing and agreeing views. Why they should not play with matches. 3. How can you have an answer to any question without the process of thinking for yourself? Even in our dreams we are thinking and processing information of daily, monthly and yearly events of people, places, things and times. The mind is a very strong weapon or tool, depending on which we choose to use it for. Whenever we have an question posed to us, we are always searching for the answer… even subconsciously. Regards, |
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